Gen Z's Faith Crisis: why young Christians are saying goodbye?! with Mary Jo Sharp and Harry Amos hosted by Billy Hallowell

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Although the number of nones in the USA has flatlined in recent years, deconstruction is still on the mind of many young people. This week a Christian apologist - raised without any religion, and a Christian who moved to agnostic atheism debate how we can reengage young people. Joining the Unbelievable debate is former atheist Mary Jo Sharp from the Pacific Northwest, A former atheist who came to faith,has experienced two worlds of American culture: growing up in the postmodern Pacific Northwest and then adulthood in the evangelical culture of the Southern Bible Belt. She first encountered apologetics in her own spiritual search while seeking answers, eventually becoming a professor of apologetics. Mary Jo is now the founder and director of Confident Christianity Apologetics Ministry. She has been featured in Christianity Today’s cover story “The Unexpected Defenders” and is an international author and speaker. Mary Jo's most recent written work is, Why I Still Believe: A former atheist's reckoning with the bad reputation Christians give a good God. Harry Amos is a graduate in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Warwick. During his studies, his passion for investigating Biblical texts, particularly the historicity of key events like the Exodus, Conquest and Easter narratives, led him to reconsider his Christian faith. Having personally found reconciliation between history, science and evangelical Christianity impossible, he now blogs on such topics at The Book of Amos (thebookofamos.wordpress.com). For more of Mary Jo: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/confidentchristianity Instagram https://www.instagram.com/maryjosharp/ For more of Harry: thebookofamos.wordpress.comhttps://www.facebook.com/BookOfAmos SOCIAL LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/unbelievablefe Facebook: / https://facebook.com/premierunbelievable Instagram: / https://instagram.com/premierunbelievable Tik Tok: / https://tiktok.com/@premier.unbelievable • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/courses • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:37.0	I know some people have told me that young people, for example, no longer believe an objective truth.
0:50.0	They all think it's relative and there is no truth.
0:54.0	I still, I think it's really, if you press them, as I've done,
1:00.0	it comes down to you they don't believe any one organization religion political party has
1:07.0	objective truth.
1:08.0	I think the political identity like you're either on you're either for us or you're against us is
1:14.5	causing a lot of disruption of young people's faith because they don't see Jesus
1:18.8	saying that they don't see him say you know they see him saying give unto Caesar what is Caesar and given
1:24.2	unto God's what is God's and they're supposed to be trusting God as being
1:28.9	overseeing is how I'm going to say that what's going on in this world. Now having said that, they don't see
1:37.9	models of leaders who are trusting in God for what's going on.
1:52.0	Hello and welcome back to Unbelievable to show that challenges Christians and non-Christians alike to think deeply about the topics that matter to all of us. Today we're tackling a profound and timely subject, the
1:55.5	deconstruction of the Christian faith. You may have heard terms like deconstructing Christian faith or becoming
2:01.5	an ex-Vangelical, these phrases often refer to a process.
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